1943 S Lincoln Cent with wire???? 0

[Kevin Varney]

It look’s nothing like my other 43s the pictures don’t do it justice, I thought it was a  43S DDO so I tried matching it up for variety but no such luck then while trying to figure it out things got more confusing and I was looking at this first magnified photo and seen something coming out of Lincoln’s  Head. Now things have gotten stranger and stranger. Well turns out the right where the wire come out Lincoln’s head if it didn’t come out it would have started to double because it appears to surround all of Lincoln all the way around under the surface until there Then it randomly shoots all the way down to the rime where I can see rust and appears to circle the rim. This coin is shiny like a proof you can see reflection in it not like a matte 43 type finish You are coin people look at the photos. No need in writing an autobiography. The short version I think I have stumbled into a prototype. The drains are to great to be a fake and why would anyone fake a 43 S and if so they wouldn’t use wire. 

[Just Bob]

1943 cents are made of steeI, with a very thin layer of zinc on each side. Zinc corrodes, and steel rusts, so, in the past, it was a very common practice for sellers to replate them with zinc, making them shinier and prettier for sale to collectors. I have a feeling that is what you have, and any anomalies are the result of the plating, or perhaps corrosion forming under the plating. Take a look at the edge of your coin. If it looks relatively smooth and uniform, your coin has been replated. 

[powermad5000]

There are some graded high end 1943 S Steel Wheat Cents that graded as PL (proof like), but the main difference is that proof likes have frosty devices to go with a shinier field. If the whole surface is "shiny", that tells me it is either polished or plated. Only modern clad non proof coinage that gets a proof like grade has a uniform shiny surface.

[J P M]

Welcome, I see a normal 1943 steel cent. There is no Doubling or Wires only some bag marks that may give the allusion of something when under high magnification.  Well first it is in a 2x2 holder and the photos are off-color it may be in good shape but it is to hard to see in the 2x2 at the most a MS66 would be worth $80 and that is high. In the real world more like 40 t0 50 still not enough to have it graded. I would just keep it the way it is and enjoy it.